RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15741, 27 August 1915, Page 7

RUSSIA.

ENEMY HELD AT BAY. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. •PETROGRAD, August 26. Communique.—The enemy's attacks in Vilna region were repulsed. Our troops on the left of the middle Niemen are concentrating upon the river. We repulsed attacks west of Brest Litovsk. IMPORTANT GERMAN GAIN. Military writers remark that with the occupation of Ossowiec the Germans gain possession of a considerable section of railway for bringing up supplies from East Prussia. GOVERNMENT OF FINLAND. RUMOURS OF IMPROVEMENT. LONDON, August 25. Rumours from Finland assert that the Russian Government is contemplating great changes in the Government of Finland, recalling Governor General Styn, General Langhoif, who has always furthered Finnish national interests, succeeding him. WET WEATHER. HAMPERS THE ENEMY. Received 11.55 p.m., August 26th. PETROGRAD, August 26. The Austro-Germana are experiencing difficulties in the Brest Litovsk region. Thick fogs and rains are turning the roads into quagmires, and the enemy is harrassed on the narrow causeways by Russian artillery. MUNITIONS' OUTPUT INCREASING. 'Times'* and Sydney "Sun" Services. Press Association —E.v Tel. —Copyright. LONDON, August 25. Petrograd states that the present output of munitions is double that at the beginning of June. The resiilt is remarkable in view of the transfer:to the interior of the munitions works of Warsaw, Vilna and Riga.